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PA’s Jeremy Hammant traces the development of supply chain integration as a way of getting information flowing between partner companies.
From vertical to virtual - Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
In the past, organisations attempted to extend their control by ‘hard wiring’ their key suppliers into vertically integrated supply chains.
Now, using the full capability of e-business, there is the potential to revolutionise the way supply chains are configured and managed. The new paradigm is one of ‘virtual’ supply chains made up of loose affiliations of companies, organised as a supply network, where physical assets are replaced by information.
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